Domestic air passenger traffic remains muted during February

New Delhi: Indian domestic air passenger traffic grew at its slowest rate in February, since flights were allowed to resume in June last year following a lock down, due to the rising number of covid-19 infections.

As many as 7.83 million passengers travelled by air in February, up from 7.73 million in January, data from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) published on Wednesday showed. However, this is still 36.71% below the numbers of February 2020.

Indian airlines flew about 5.6% more domestic passengers in January than in the previous month.